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Thursday, April 26th, 2007When we taught Five Weeks to a Social Library, we used Drupal and kind of had to hack it to make it work as a course management system. Too bad DrupalEd wasn’t out yet. But it is now!
The goal of this site is to create a flexible framework that allows for users to set up [...]
In other happy news…
Thursday, March 29th, 2007I was beyond thrilled to see the Wired article featuring Helene Blowers’ amazing Learning 2.0 project and model. You know when you make it into something like Wired, you’ve MADE IT. It pleases me to no end to see so many libraries replicating the program to provide accessible and fun technology education to [...]
Want to implement social software at your library?
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007If you have any interest in implementing social software tools at your library, you may want to check out some of the amazing proposals created by our participants for their libraries. I have organized the proposals by the technology they want to use and by library type. It’s obvious looking at proposals by tool that [...]
Making Five Weeks to a Social Library happen: The down and dirty
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007In this post, I’m going to talk about the decisions we made in creating the course and what I would do differently next time. Hopefully this will be useful to those of you who wish to replicate the course. I’m sure my fellow organizers will have other insights to add from their perspective.
Certain decisions we [...]
A model for the future of online learning
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007Last Spring, while Chairing the library track of HigherEd BlogCon and feeling like it was not an engaging enough online conference model, I had a crazy idea to create a free online conference with more synchronous and asynchronous pieces to really draw people in and build a community. I refused to believe that the only [...]
Five Weeks to a Social Library: Highlights from Week 4
Saturday, March 10th, 2007Wow! I can’t believe we’ve just finished Week 4. It’s definitely a bittersweet feeling. I can’t imagine waking up in a little over a week and not finding new posts from my friends in this program. I have gained so much from my interactions with them, more than I could have ever imagined. I only [...]
Five Weeks to a Social Library: Highlights from Week 3
Sunday, March 4th, 2007As you all know, I’m a big fan of wikis, such a big fan that I often cannot gauge how other people will respond when they are introduced to wikis. Well, imagine my surprise to discover how incredibly enthusiastic our participants were this week about implementing wikis in their library; probably more so than any [...]
Five Weeks to a Social Library: Highlights from Week 2
Sunday, February 25th, 2007Week two of Five Weeks to a Social Library is now over. RSS and del.icio.us really generated a lot of excitement for our participants and many could see the personal and professional benefits of using these tools. We have people spending 16 hours per week on the class because they want to play with these [...]
Highlights from Week 1 of Five Weeks to a Social Library
Sunday, February 18th, 2007The weeks and months before the start of Five Weeks to a Social Library required a significant amount of work, but I don’t think I was prepared for how much time I would need to devote once the course started. However, it has been totally worth it so far. I am literally blown away by [...]
Making things happen!
Monday, February 12th, 2007I have always been an idea person. I probably get that from my dad who has had dozens of business ideas in the 29 years I’ve known him. However, before I became a librarian, I rarely pursued any of the ideas I had. I usually either didn’t know where to start or I didn’t think [...]
Does distance learning have to be like this?
Sunday, January 21st, 2007Jennifer Macaulay, who really just has to stop writing such insightful pieces or I will never get anything done, wrote a piece on her experiences as a distance learner a couple of weeks ago. And if I didn’t know better, I would have thought that I had written the entire thing myself, so much did [...]
Five Weeks to a Social Library Update
Friday, January 5th, 2007I am pleased to announce that, after much deliberation, we have chosen our participants for the Five Weeks to a Social Library course! They are a diverse group — geographically, in the type of population they work with, and in terms of their position at their library. Here is the list:
Bayer, Dell – Sr. Research [...]
Application Deadline: Five Weeks to a Social Library
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006I just wanted to remind folks that December 1 is the deadline for applications to participate in the Five Weeks to a Social Library course. You can find the application instructions here.
We have gotten an incredible number of applications for the course from people all over the world — from all different types of libraries [...]
The good, the bad and the utterly hillarious
Sunday, October 8th, 2006I have been ridiculously busy getting ready for the five talks I have coming up in the next three weeks. I have to have the slides for them all totally done this week because I’m going on vacation from the 13th until the start of Internet Librarian. And, for the first time in a long [...]
Five Weeks to a Social Library: Participant Application
Monday, October 2nd, 2006I’m so pleased and excited to see how Five Weeks to a Social Library is shaping up! We have a terrific group of presenters involved in the course who will help to teach participants all about social software and how to successfully implement social technologies in their library. You can see a very preliminary preliminary [...]
Female speakers in library tech: an interesting finding
Sunday, September 24th, 2006Friday was the deadline for proposals from content creators for Five Weeks to a Social Library. At the beginning of the week, some of the planning committee was beginning to sweat because we only had 8 proposals total. After having planned HigherEd BlogCon, I knew that most would come in over that last week (and [...]
Five Weeks to a Social Library Presenters
Sunday, September 17th, 2006Friday is the deadline to submit a proposal to provide content for the Five Weeks to a Social Library course. While we have gotten a lot of proposals on certain topics, there are others on which we have not gotten any (or have gotten very few). If you have experience using or know a lot [...]
Introducing Five Weeks to a Social Library!
Monday, August 21st, 2006Remember way back when I was talking about wanting to do some sort of a free online educational extravaganza? Well, the wheels have been turning behind the scenes, but I didn’t want to announce anything until I had something concrete. This summer, I asked five other amazing women to partner with me in creating [...]
SirsiDynix Talk Archive
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006For those of you who missed my wiki talk last week and wanted to watch it later, the archived presentation is up and is available as a podcast or as a video with the slides and audio. There are a lot of terrific presentations in the SirsiDynix Institute archive by some of the great thinkers [...]
Book trumps blogging
Monday, May 29th, 2006My book is due in just over a month. This is a fact that is causing me a fair amount of anxiety. I know I’ll get it done in time, but will it be good? I don’t know. Roy Tennant, trying to be nice and give me advice a while back, [...]
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